Kierkegaard and Death

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Death and dying in the work of Søren Kierkegaard

Few philosophers have devoted such sustained, almost obsessive attention to the topic of death as Søren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard and Death brings together new work on Kierkegaard's multifaceted discussions of death and provides a thorough guide to the development, in various texts and contexts, of Kierkegaard's ideas concerning death. Essays by an international group of scholars take up essential topics such as dying to the world, living death, immortality, suicide, mortality and subjectivity, death and the meaning of life, remembrance of the dead, and the question of the afterlife. While bringing Kierkegaard's philosophy of death into focus, this volume connects Kierkegaard with important debates in contemporary philosophy.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction; Patrick Stokes and Adam Buben

1. Knights and Knaves of the Living Dead: Kierkegaard's Use of Living Death as a Metaphor for Despair; George Connell
2. To Die And Yet Not Die: Kierkegaard's Theophany of Death; Simon D. Podmore
3. Christian Hate: Death, Dying, and Reason in Pascal and Kierkegaard; Adam Buben
4. Suicide and Despair Marius; Timmann Mjaaland
5. Thinking Death Into Every Moment: The Existence-Problem of Dying in Kierkegaard's Postscript; Paul Muench
6. Death and Ethics in Kierkegaard's Postscript; David D. Possen
7. The Intimate Agency of Death; Edward F. Mooney
8. A Critical Perspective on Kierkegaard's "At a Graveside"; Gordon D. Marino
9. Life-Narrative and Death as the End of Freedom: Kierkegaard on Anticipatory Resoluteness; John J. Davenport
10. Heidegger and Kierkegaard on Death: The Existentiell and the Existential; Charles Guignon
11. Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida: The Death of the Other; Laura Llevadot
12. Derrida, Judge William, and Death; Ian Duckles
13. The Soft Weeping of Desire's Loss: Recognition, Phenomenality, and the One Who Is Dead in Kierkegaard's Works of Love; Jeremy J. Allen
14. Duties to the Dead? Earnest Imagination and Remembrance; Patrick Stokes
15. Kierkegaard's Understanding of the Afterlife; Tamara Monet Marks

Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Philosophie de la religion
• Religious
• PHILOSOPHY
• Philosophie et théologie
• Religión
• Philosophy of religion
• Religion

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• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 20 octobre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253005342
• Langue: English

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KIERKEGAARD AND DEATH
Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion MEROLD WESTPHAL, EDITOR
K IERKEGAARD AND D EATH
Edited by
PATRICK STOKES and ADAM BUBEN
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Kierkegaard and death / edited by Patrick Stokes and Adam Buben.
p. cm. - (Indiana series in the philosophy of religion)
Proceedings of a conference held in Dec. 2007 at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-253-35685-7 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-253-22352-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-253-00534-2 (ebook) 1.
Kierkegaard, S ren, 1813-1855-Congresses. 2. Death-Congresses. I. Stokes, Patrick, [date] II. Buben, Adam, [date] III. Title. IV. Series.
B4378.D43K54 2011
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction Patrick Stokes and Adam Buben
1. Knights and Knaves of the Living Dead: Kierkegaard s Use of Living Death as a Metaphor for Despair George Connell
2. To Die and Yet Not Die: Kierkegaard s Theophany of Death Simon D. Podmore
3. Christian Hate: Death, Dying, and Reason in Pascal and Kierkegaard Adam Buben
4. Suicide and Despair Marius Timmann Mjaaland
5. Thinking Death into Every Moment: The Existence-Problem of Dying in Kierkegaard s Postscript Paul Muench
6. Death and Ethics in Kierkegaard s Postscript David D. Possen
7. The Intimate Agency of Death Edward F. Mooney
8. A Critical Perspective on Kierkegaard s At a Graveside Gordon D. Marino
9. Life-Narrative and Death as the End of Freedom: Kierkegaard on Anticipatory Resoluteness John J. Davenport
10. Heidegger and Kierkegaard on Death: The Existentiell and the Existential Charles Guignon
11. Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida: The Death of the Other Laura Llevadot
12. Derrida, Judge William, and Death Ian Duckles
13. The Soft Weeping of Desire s Loss: Recognition, Phenomenality, and the One Who Is Dead in Kierkegaard s Works of Love Jeremy J. Allen
14. Duties to the Dead? Earnest Imagination and Remembrance Patrick Stokes
15. Kierkegaard s Understanding of the Afterlife Tamara Monet Marks
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
The idea for this book emerged over a plate of Chinese pork dumplings in December 2005, just after the Kierkegaard and Asia conference held at the University of Melbourne. Since then the project has been well traveled, with editorial work taking place in Australia, Minnesota, New Mexico, Florida, Guam, Denmark, and England. And along with the frequent flyer miles, we ve also accumulated a great many debts of gratitude, which it is our pleasure to acknowledge here.
Work on this project has been made possible by funding from various sources: a Kierkegaard House Foundation Fellowship, a Danish Research Council for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship and a European Commission Marie Curie Fellowship (Stokes), and a University of South Florida Presidential Doctoral Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship (Buben). Our thanks to our hosts at St. Olaf College, the S ren Kierkegaard Research Centre, the University of South Florida, the University of Hertfordshire, and the University of Guam.
We owe a particular debt to Gordon Marino and Cynthia Lund and to all the staff and scholars at the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. The library generously hosted a two-day conference on Kierkegaard and Death in early December 2007, which was the source of several papers presented in this volume. We would like to thank the more than forty attendees and presenters at this conference, especially Anthony Rudd, Myron B. Penner, and the late Howard V. Hong, for their comments.
The International Kierkegaard Commentary list of abbreviations is used with kind permission of Series Editor Robert L. Perkins and Mercer University Press.
We d like to offer our thanks to the following people who have provided help and encouragement at various stages of the project: Andrew Burgess and Janice Schuetz, Niels J rgen Cappel rn, Jon Stewart, James Giles, Sinead Ladegaard Knox, Robert L. Perkins, S ren Landkildehus, John Lippitt, Rick Anthony Furtak, Dario Gonzalez, Jonathan Weidenbaum, Jack Mulder, Eric Berg, Daniel Leichty, Antony Aumann, and J. Michael Tilley.
Finally, we thank our respective friends and families for their support and encouragement, and especially Jessica Doyle for her help throughout the entire project, and Megan Altman for her invaluable assistance.
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ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS BA The Book on Adler , trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995) CA The Concept of Anxiety , trans. Reidar Thomte in collaboration with Albert B. Anderson (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980) CD Christian Discourses and The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress , trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997) CI The Concept of Irony together with Notes on Schelling s Berlin Lectures, trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989) CUP Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, 2 vols., trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992) EO Either/Or , 2 vols., trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987) EUD Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses , trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990) FSE For Self-Examination and Judge for Yourself! , trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990) FT Fear and Trembling and Repetition , trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983) JC Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum est. See Philosophical Fragments JFY Judge for Yourself! See For Self-Examination JP S ren Kierkegaard s Journals and Papers , ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, assisted by Gregor Malantschuk (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1, 1967; 2, 1970; 3 and 4, 1975; 5-7, 1978) KJN 1 Kierkegaard s Journals and Notebooks: Vol. 1, Journals AA-DD , ed. Niels J rgen Cappel rn, Alastair Hannay, David Kangas, Bruce H. Kirmmse, George Pattison, Vanessa Rumble, and K. Brian S derquist (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007) PC Practice in Christianity , trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991) PF Philosophical Fragments and Johannes Climacus , trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985) PV The Point of View for My Work as an Author, The Single Individual, On My Work as an Author and Armed Neutrality , trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998) R Repetition. See Fear and Trembling . SLW Stages on Life s Way , trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988) SUD The Sickness unto Death , trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1980) TDIO Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions , trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993) TM The Moment and Late Writings , trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998) UDVS Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits , trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993) WA Without Authority , trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997) WL Works of Love , trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995)
DANISH TEXTS SKS 1 Af en endnu Levendes Papirer; Om Begrebet Ironi , ed. Niels J rgen Cappel rn, Joakim Garff, Johnny Kondrup, and Finn Hauberg Mortensen (Copenhagen: Gads, 1997) SKS 2 Enten-Eller. F rste del , ed. Niels J rgen Cappel rn, Joakim Garff, Johnny Kondrup, and Finn Hauberg Mortensen (Copenhagen: Gads, 1997) SKS 3 Enten-Eller. Anden del , ed. Niels J rgen Cappel rn, Joakim Garff, Johnny Kondrup, and Finn Hauberg Mortensen (Copenhagen: Gads, 1997) SKS 4 Gjentagelsen; Frygt og B ven; Philosophiske Smuler; Begrebet Angest; Forord , ed. Niels J rgen Cappel rn, Joakim Garff, Johnny Kondrup, and Finn Hauberg Mortensen (Copenhagen: Gads, 1997) SKS 5 Opbyggelige taler, 1843-44; Tre Taler ved t nkte Leiligheder , ed. Niels J rgen Cappel rn, Joakim Garff, Jette Knudsen, Johnny Kondrup, and Finn Hauberg Mortensen (Copenhagen: Gads, 1998) SKS 6 Stadier paa Livets Vei , ed. Niels J rgen Cappel rn, Joakim Garff, Jette Knudsen, Johnny Kondrup, and Finn Hauberg Mortensen (Copenhagen: Gads, 1999) SKS 7 Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift , ed. Niels J rgen Cappel rn, Joakim Garff, Jette Knudsen, and Johnny Kondrup (Copenhagen: Gads, 2002) SKS K7 Kommentarer til SKS 7 , by Tonny Aagaard Olesen (Copenhagen: Gads, 2002) SKS 8 En literair Anmeldelse; Opbyggelige Taler i fo